State charges included kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of husband of Nancy Pelosi

State charges included kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of husband of Nancy Pelosi

The man who was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for attacking the husband ofĀ Nancy Pelosi with a hammer in theirĀ California home was sentenced on Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole following a separate state trial.

AĀ San Francisco jury in June found David DePapeĀ guilty of chargesĀ including aggravated kidnapping, first-degree burglary and false imprisonment of an elder.

Before issuing the sentence, Judge Harry Dorfman dismissed arguments from DePapeā€™s attorneys that he be granted a new trial for the 2022 attack against Paul Pelosi, who was 82 years old at the time.

ā€œItā€™s my intention that Mr DePape will never get out of prison, he can never be paroled,ā€ Dorfman said while handing out the punishment.

  • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
    414Ā·
    18 days ago

    I also despise the prison industrial complex and prefer rehabilitation over punishment

    Uh huh. Sure. Letā€™s find out how much.

    but thereā€™s a point where losses need to be cut.

    Ah, the answer was ā€œnot at allā€.

    He doesnā€™t seem remorseful, and heā€™s not going to seek help when he believes he is justified in beating an elderly man with a hammer.

    Okay.

    At that point, what options are left?

    Rehabilitation? Mental health care? All of the things that European countries do better than us?

    itā€™s immoral to involuntarily institutionalize and forcibly medicate individuals

    But somehow in your book itā€™s perfectly moral to lock them in a cage until they die? Iā€™d take medication and institutionalization over being tortured to death any day.

    and even if it wasnā€™t, thatā€™s a slippery slope you donā€™t want to go down.

    Ah yes, the slippery slope of not throwing people away like pieces of trash. Would hate to fall down that oneā€¦ /s

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      6Ā·
      18 days ago

      Rehabilitation and mental health care are only effective when the individual is receptive to it. This guy is brainwashed, but letā€™s imagine thatā€™s just the tip of the iceberg: what if itā€™s just a symptom of a greater issue like psychopathy, and he just doesnā€™t want to be rehabilitated.

      What, then? Let him have the chance to convince others going through their own rehabilitation to join the q-ult? Keep dragging him to appointments where he does nothing but reinforce his own delusions of grandeur? Forcefully sedate him? Put him in a straightjacket and padded cell, causing maddening isolation? Give him a fucking lobotomy against his will?

      The world isnā€™t sunshine and rainbows. Prison is a shit option, but itā€™s a hell of a lot better than being rehabilitated by firing squad or 1940s quack medical procedures.